Rubik's Snake
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Rubik's Twist, usally Snake, is a folding puzzle. The Snake was probably the second most popular twisty in the 80's, only second to the cube itself.
Speedsolving a snake you go from a strait bar to the 'ball' shape (truncated octahedra). Advanced solvers does this in 3-4 grips rendering times in the range of 2-5 seconds. Solving piece by piece is pretty much slower and gives times in the range 10-15 seconds. The unofficial world record is held by Kadir Sertcali of Sweden and the average is 2.92 seconds.
Out of the box they are not so fast, a speed snake needs breaking in and/or sanding (eventually they get too loose and does not stay in shape when put on the surface).
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